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TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS VROM THE MORNING PAPMS, APRIL '2l, 1826 . • VIM TIMES.] That part of the French bUdget which relates to the revenue derived from external - ecarunercei—ror, in other words, the annual law of the customs,—is about to pass the• Chamber of Deputies Without any relaxation of its restrictive provisions. Our House of Commons are one subjects of trade better instructed than the mem bers of the French Legislature. Prohibitory duties and severe restrictions are still with them the order of the day ;• and they quote with complacency and confi , dence, the authority Of England for a policy which England has seen reason to abandon. According to thera,franee ought to import no article which her own soil or industry can supply, at whatever disadvantage it, 'must be procured at home, and however advanta geously it might be purchased abroad; because by such an ireportatlon, some French agriculturist or ma nufacturer would suffer froni a diminished demand for hissommodity. On this principle they ought to have continued to make their sugar from beet-root, as under Buonaparte--on this principle they ought to refuse every foreign article, because there is scarcely any thing that may not, by an excessive expenditure of labour and capital, be raised or manufactured at home. But such reasoners forget, that as foreigners are never generous enough to give their property without some equivalent, if Frenchmen injure one species of domestic industry by importing commodities, they must benefit another by exporting commodities to pay for their im ports ; and that as they would - expert what they can produce with the least labour to pay for what they could procure at the most, they must be gainers by the exchange. In total ignorance of this principle, one of the orators tells us, as a benefit of the restric tive syFiem, 44 that France formerly sent her money 44.to,the Belgians for linen and cattle ; she does so no longer, and the Belgians no longer take our wines ; 44 therefore, the Belgians bought our wines with our 44 Money, and therefore we were losers." Belgic in dustry had certain advantages in the rearing of cattle and the manufacture of linen, and French in the rear ing of vines and the 'making of wine ; both were there fore benefitted by an exchange. But if France refused to take the peculiar produce or manufacture of her neighbours, they had of course nothing to pay for her wine. . The Belg ians had as great a right to complain that Frenchmen purchased their linen and cattle with their own money, as this deputy that the Belgians drank.Fiench wine purchased at the expence of French gold and silver. There probably .was never a display of greater ignorance than appears in the late debates on the. customs. A= document • of a very curious nature has recently arrived in this country from New York, by , the last packet, bringing papers to the 24th ult. having been communicated on the 17th by the President' to the House of Representatives. It purports to be an official instruction, addressed by Mr. Clay to Mr. Middleton; Minister froin the United States to Russia, and bearing date the 10th of May, 1825. The professed object of the instruction is, to prevail upon the Emperor of Russia to interfere with the Spanish Government, and obtain its consent to an immediate cessation of hostilities with the old Spanish American ovinces. The argument to be principally urged upon RRussia for this purpose is, the great probability then existing, that Spain would lose, not only her con tinental possessions !: which, indeed, were said with truth to be gone from her past recovery, but her W ' ands also, of Cuba and - Porto Rio, which the liberated republics would, in the case of a continuance of their warfare with the' mother country, attack as a Matter of course ; and, considering the divided state of the population, almost of necessity succeed in cap turing. , Thus the intervention of Russia was to be for . the sake of Sain, about whose interests the President of the United States appears eagerly—might we not say suspieiOusly?—solicrtous. It is, indeed, extremely Cies:, that . , for whatever reason, the United States Would inUch more willingly see Cuba still in the hands of . Spain. than in those of any other power. From Spain, it is certain that the island could be more easily wrested, when the opportunity arose, than from either' the new, American Republics, or from any European States : and if the Washington Cabinet has for itself .any . ultimate views upon the sovereignty of the Spanish islands, it would naturally deprecate such measures as might lead to a premature change of owner shipirith respect to them. With this hint we deem it w, ::to drop the subject, taking for granted that the Government of England can see as far as its iu~urrs.---(lbid.)lbid.) [MORNING CHAONICLE.] We received, last night, through the North and South American Coffee-house, American Papers to the 22d ult. The great theme of discussion in them is thp Mtlyisage of the President on the subject of the. Congress at Panama. A strong opposition has sprung up in the American 'Legislature ; and the newspapers, in commenting upon the different Mem bers, indulge in a freedom which makes our hair stand on end. For instance, the New York American says-- "the great objection mule to tlle,lission. is, that the South ern Republics have wisely provided., for ultimately riding them selves Of the acknowledged evil of ,tiegro Slavery. This was the burden of Mr. Randolph's Speeches, and he only talked put more plainly what Ida ceadintors felt and acted upon: and in . this coalition in favour of perpetual slavery, we find M. Van Ilitren from this free State Shame upon such a re creant !" %re we to distribute shame and recreancy in this manner to Members of our Legislation, we know where we should smut be. Our readers will see that we are at length to be without an Alien Act. All the regulation we are in future to have is the Registration of Aliens. This measure will give great satisfaction to many indivi. ddals, though, of late years, the law has been a dead latter.- (ihid.) The snbject of West' Indian Slavery was agitated in 60,4 ' , 4ol . ises . . last night. Lord r,i ve ip oo l, gil d Canning both expressed themselves strongly Mr. tied with the opposition of the Colonial A mlillasieastitso thelneasitres recommended to them for tl s ie se treatment en : i of their SlaVes, and stated distinctly their det should die Assemblies continue refractor ntta 'Litho recur to compulsory :measures. Mr. William stated, " that his Majesty's Government have intimated it to - be their . intention, if they have not 'already car ried. .ouch - intention into execution, of appointing a Pi - 0044 or Protectors, of Slaves in the Colonies." We v anticipate much good . from such •an appointment. It will always be difficult in the Colonies to havori. bunalsimpartial between Masters and Slaves. Make what laws you will, the execution of them will always be ti the hands of persons connected, more or less with the Slave system. The appointment of an oil& cer, to whom the Negroes may look up for protection and aid, will, in 4 . 4 probability, prove highly benefi cial. Petitions were i presented, complaining of the in jury done to West ndian property by the' lauguage used in Parliament and elsewhere by the Abolitionists. However this may be, we suspect the condition of the Slaves would have been much worse at this day but for the Abolitionists.--(Bid.) [NEW TIMES.] French and Dutch Paper to the 20th, were re ceived last night. The latter contain the latest ac counts of the operations in Java, intelligence from which island has been received by the Dutch Go vernMent, up to the Bth December. General Van Geen had been passing a few days. at Batavia, after an expedition against the rebels, in which he had been so far successful that none of them ventured to await his attack. The Dutch authorities have, as a piece of prudent policy, displaced certain of the native governors, whose faith they found it impossible to rely on, and appointed others, who have sworn on the Koran to bear true' allegiance to their European mas ters. Whether these Javanese Mosleim will keep their oaths any better than their predecessors, remains to be seen. By some notices from Russia, of date the Ist April, we are informed that the Coronation of the Emperor, contrary to what was stated yester day, will not take place until the 7th July, his birth day. Either the French authority, from which we drew the account of the faipily of the Emperor Paul, in -- our number of the 13th January last, must have deceived us, or the present Emperor was born, not on the 7th, but on the 2d July._ The Em press Elizabeth and the Empress Mother will, it is said, be present at the ceremony. There is no certain intelligence :yet received with respect to the fate of Missolonghi, nor whether it still holds out or not. By Letters from Buenos Ayres, it would appear that the condition of the Republic is very far from enviable. Their finances win the most wretched state, and they have had recourse to a very wretched expedient, in order to remedy them—the issue of notes under the sanction ,of the Government, which have already fallen 20 per cent. There is one comfort, however, to the friends of the Republic, and that arises out of the weakness of the enemy they are contending against, who very evidently is as destitute of resources as they are. Much time may pass in the struggle ; but when both parties are so helpless, it is not likely, in the issue, very materially to injure either.—(ibid.) [MORNING HERALD. 3 Actuated by a desire to serve the national interests, we felt it our duty to bring the Lists of Naval Promo tions for the last year under the review of public opi nion. In doing, so, we stated nothing but what we were supported in advancing by facts, and those facts, it should be recollected, were taken from the documents furnished by the Admiralty Office to the HOUSO of Commons. The authenticity of the particulars to which we .have referred, cannot therefore be called in question ; and lest it might be supposed that we made erroneous or garbled extracts, we printed the whole of the lists to which our references were made, while we pointed out those individual cases of unequal promotion that appeared the most deserving of public notice. Fair as tins mode of treating the sub ject was,- we did not expect to please those whose interest it is to uphold the vicious system of patron age, and keep Naval Promotion as a snug thing for the benefit of certain families, and the maintenance of certain political connections. We should like, how ever, the expression of displeasure on - the part of those whose conduct stands arraigned to be accompanied by something like argument ; for to say , that our state ments are not founded in fact, as a writer in defence of the Admiralty does, is only to assert that the Naval Returns published by the authority of the House of Commons are spurious or falsified. papers. We evi denced our statements by no other facts than what those Returns afforded—we conceived that those facts made out a strong case against the present government of the Navy ; but if they can be explained away, or accounted for by any just or honodrable principle of promotion, why is it not done ? Abusive epithets can do nothing for the party accused, except to show an irritation of temper not at all incompatible with the conscious in firma', of a cause. We shall revert to this subject again, at present we refer our readers to the letter of 'a Correspondent in another column, which gives some facts that the Naval Returns do not furnish, and which the Admiralty writers may find it difficult to answer. [THE REPRESENTATIVE.] The Petition of the Merchants trading from London to the West India Colonies, and others holding mortgages and other securities upon Slaves and lands in the said Colonies, which will be found at length in our report of the proceedings which took place last night in the House of Lords, will, we doubt not, command the serious attention of the public, no less from the high respectability .of the individuals by whom it was signed, than from the temperate manner in which it remonstrates against the unjustifiable at tacks which have been recently made upon the an cient property of the West India planters. It shows, by authority which no man in this country can con trovert—by the authority of repeated Acts of. Parli ament—that slaves; as it exists at present in the West India islands, has not only been connived at, but ex pressly encouraged by • the Legislature and Executive of this country ; it shows that, upon the, faith reposed in these repeated Acts of the Legislature, purChases have been effected ; money has been advanced upon mortgage ; family settlements have been entered into, and provision has been made for - children ; and it adds, that if the measures recommended by the Abolitionists be carried into effect, all the parties interested in these several arrangements will be involved in one common ruin. It alleges that the Planters have evinced on all occasions the sincerest desire to promote any improve, m eat iii the condition of the Slave Which is not ut terly inconsisted with, and repugnant to, the interest of the master ; and it contends, that . if the Legislature of this country should go beyond this fair limit of its authority,,, justice requires that a full compensation should, be made to all the parties who may suffer from any new regulations. The petitioners say in ef fect—,, The property which we hold is ours under the sanction of repeated, Acts of the British Le gislature. If any suggestion should be offered to us for the amelioration of the condition of the Slaves, which. does. no t go , teet h e " ex t en t of depriving us of the labour whi c h we have f a irly, purchased, we are willing to adopt it ; but if ,you ye quire us to adopt measures .which will deprive us o f th is a d va ntage, which consti tiitei!, in effect, .the real value of our estates, we beg Yo 4 wall take our Troperty into .your own hands, to manage as you . may think proper,. and give us an ade- (pate compensation for that of which you choose to de prive us."—We really do not know whether those who are busy in exciting a clamour respecting Negro Slavery are prepared to provide this compensation to the Planters ; but we cannot help feeling that the honour and good faith of the nation are pledged to yield them a fair compensation for any injury which may be in flicted upon their property. It is a principle recog nised and acted upon to every turnpike bill in this country, that no measure, having in view the good of the public, shouldb e carried into effect, without secur ing an ample .recompense to the private individuals who may be injured in its progress. If the people of this country insist upon interfering with the Colonists in the internal management of their property, let them purchase these estates, and they may then, without in justice, make any experiments in the West India Islands which the most fanatic theorists may prevail upon them to try. SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, At the ordinary meeting of the Royal Society, held at their apartments, Somerset-place, on Thursday last (April 13), a series of communications were read, of considerable interest, from Capt. PARRY and Lieut. FOSTER, R. N., jointly, describing a number of observations and experiments made during the late Northern Expedition, on the various magnetic phenomena which presented themselves in those high latitudes, especially at Port Bowen. An extensive course of observations on the variation and intensity, daily, and in some cases, hourly, on the dip, was given in a set of tables. The daily variation appeared to have a close connexion with the place of the sun, and a less obvious one with that of the moon ; and the Aurora Borealis (contrary to what has been generally supposed) seemed to have no influence on these phe nomena. After the meeting, there were exhibited to the mem bers a variety of specimens of glass, manufactured by a new process (invented, we believe, chiefly through the indefatigable attention and eminent skill of the President), for optical purposes, under the superin tendence of a Committee of the Society, at the in stance of the Board of Longitude, with a view to the improvement of telescopes, the impossibility of pro cunng glass sufficiently pure for large object glasses having hitherto proved an insurmountable bar to their being carried to that degree of perfection which the present wants of the astronomer require. Several eminent opticians were present, and expressed their ad miration of the specimens produced. Thunda.y, April 20.—At the meeting this even ing, the Right Honourable WILLIAM STURGES BOURNE, M. P. was proposed, ballotted for, and, ac cording to his privilege as a Privy Counsellor, electedinto the Society without the usual form of recommendation. A very elaborate paper (of little general interest) was read by Dr. YOUNG, on the calculation of the value of lives, in which all the well-known mathemati cal skill of that philosopher was most conspicuously and usefully displayed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATE or THE ODDS.—TS CLAIIEND , 6 to 4 ego The Moslent 2 to 1 eget Monarch 5 toq aget Crusader 2000os. 5 to 2 on the Fielit 1000 G 3. C to 4 apt Butterfly 3 to I agst Problem NEWN ~ . .TTlIkla.llOOAl, APRIL 20. STAICES. 110 to 1 eget Parapluie 10 to 1 eget The General. STAKES. 2 to 1 apt Dragon —Very little betting. STAIOES. 4 to 1 agst l'arapluie ,RKE T. 4 to 1 agst Monarch 5 to 1 agst The Moslem ii to 1 agst Panic , 15 to 1 agst The Baron 16 to 1 agst Advance 18 to I agst Carthago 18 to 1 aget Dorinda 20 to I agst Charming Molly 30 to 1 agst The General to 1 aget The Moslem 7 t_____ o 1 agst The Baron. BY. 25 to 1 agst Viscountess 28 to 1 agst Dervise 30 to 1 ,agst Centaur 40 to 1 agst Bolivar 40 to 1 agat Waterman 40 to 1 ago Norman 40 to I agat Twatty 50 to 1 age. Syphon fin Derby and Clarendon. xs. :3 to 3 agst Butterfly 12 to 1 agat Elizabeth 7 to 1 agst Problem 14 to 1 agst Bo.peep 8 to 1 twat Paraplule 18 to 1 agst Morel 9 to 1 agst Mignonette 18 to 1 agst Tears 16 to 1 agst Rachel 20 to 1 agst Louisa. 6 to 2 agst Duke of Orafton'a Lot taken 7 to 2 agat Lord Jersey's Lot ditto 7 to 1 agat Butterfly for Oaks, 1000 gs. stakes ditto to 4 agst Problem and Paraplule. MATCH BETWEEN HUG AND LIEUT. This race, for 600 sovs. %ram Ashted race course, Herta, pest was 12 miles, and each one and follows : lIES FORRESTER, ESQ. HANI3URY. I run over a mile and a half of terday morning. The distance . a half mile was performed as THE LIEUT. Ist mile and a half - 2d 4th - . . oth . . . 6th . . . 7th oth 77.48 last mile, although he possessed FORItESTF R. [St mile and a half M. s. 9 1 -- J 0 ▪-- 9 4 --- 9 9 • - - 910 - 9 20 940 - - - 10 2 4th sth. Gth 7th 74 20 The loser broke down in the most speed. 10 60 12 10 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE. POLLARD Ma MtIaDEIU • .—Yesterday a Mrs. Hogan, of Park-street, Baker-street, gityleborte, the landlady of the house in which Pollard the murderer resided, asked the advice of the Magistrates how she shoOld proceed under the following circum stances :—Pollard representing himself to be a writer, took apart ments at her house, and introduced Mrs. Bignal, who: lived with him until Thursday last. After the murder had been committed, on searching the room, .various articles were found in the room belonging to Pollard and Mrs' Bignal ; there were two weeks' rent due to her, and she wished to know whether she would be justified in detaining the property until she was paid, as Mrs. B. claimed the whole of the property (including Pollard's).—The Magistrate recommended her to consult first of all with Mrs. Pol lard, about her husband's property, and when 'thew knew what &longed to Mrs. Bignal, to apply to her for the rent. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a fashionably dressed young man was charged by an elderly saleswoman of Covent-garden market, with au assault, under the following circumstances ; She stated that, at five o'clock this morning, she was coming to wards Covent-garden, from Newport-market, when .the defendant carne behind her, and putting Ids hands upon her shoulders, he jumped upon her back ; and not content with the chastisement he received, while thus " horsed," from her daughter-in-law, and her own advice on the subject, he in a few minutes after repeated the at tack, but upon the daughter-in-law. This he was also forgiven ; but he again came with a run and a jump on to the hack of the old lady ► and not being able to stand the second shock, she fell and hurt herself much, she said. The defendant said it was merely a frolic—all c h ance an d acci dent. All parties being willing to make it up, they retired, and the young man paid for his frolic with taco sovereigns. EQUITABLE LOAN BANK COMPANY.--A Meet ing of Shareholders took place yesterday, when after some conver sation, it Was resolved that a Committee should be appointed to investigate the accounts whenever the Directors should think pro pa to furnish them. WEST INDIA COLONIES. Thq following Petition Was presented to the House of Lords last night by Lord REDESDALE : To the Right Hon. the House of Lords of the United Empire of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Merchants, trading from Lon don to the British %Vest India Colonies, and others holding Mortgages and other Securities upon Slaves and Lands in the said Colonies, Humbly showeth—That your petitioners form a portion of those British subjects who have embarked capital upon the se curity of slaves, lands, and other property in the West India colonies, in full reliance upon acts and declarations of the Bri tish Legislature, which during nearly two centuries have sanc tioned and encouraged such investments in furtherance of the cultivation and prosperity of those colonies. That, among the statutes of the realm to which your peti tioners refer, that of the 6th Geo. IL cap. 13, (entitled an Act for better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty's sugar colonies in America), declares by its preamble that" the welfare and prosperity of his Majesty's sugar colonies in Ame rica are of the greatest consequence and importance to the trade, navigation, and strength of the kingdom, and proceeds to enactments advantageous to the colonies. The Act of 14th Geo. 111., cap. 14, invites loans from aliens, on the security of freehold or leasehold estates in his Majesty's colonies in the West Indies ; and that of 14th Geo. 111., cap.. 79, legalizes the taking interest by British subjects for sums advanced :on mort gages and securities of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, slaves, cattle, and other things, at the rate allowed by the law in the colony where the mortgaged premises lie. That the cultivation of the British West Indies colonies, by the labour of negro slaves imported from Africa, had in this long period not the cognizance merely, but the express sanction and encouragement of the Legislature, which, in the preamble to the Act of the 23d Geo.-11., cap. 31, declares that "the trade to and from Africa is veryadvantageous to Great Britain, and necessary for the supplying the plantations and colonies there unto belonging, with a sufficient number of negroes at reason able rates," and proceeds to enact that " the said trade shall be free and open tp all his Majesty's subjects." That occasional efforts made by the Colonial. Legislatures to check an excessive importation of slaves have been repelled and reproved by the mother country, whose deliberate counsels had established her African slave trade, and encouraged it upon grounds distinct from colonial interests before her colonies existed ; that your petitioners, therefore, must protest against the injustice of throwing discredit upon West India commerce and securities, by mixing up the case of those connected with that trade and property with the odium which in this free coun try is excited by the bare knowledge of the existence of slavery, an odium which, so far as the British West India Colonies are concerned, attaches not to your petitioners, but to the nation. That it cannot be disputed that the well-being and comforts of the slaves in our colonies have been materially.and progres sively bettered since the time when the nation was holding out the strongest inducements to an increase of that number, dur ing which period, and even subsequently, when Great Britain abandoned and abolished her African slave trade, no intimation without any semblance of authority, was announced, of effect ing an t xtinction of slavery . in the colonies, otherwise than by 'he means which an able writer, zealous for the attainment of that object, has pointed out, " the same happy means which formerly put an end to it in England, viz.—by a benign though insensible, revolution in opinion anti manners, by the encou. ragement of particular manumissions, and the progressive me lioration of the condition of the slaves, till it should glide in. sensibly into general freedom ;" the emancipation looked to was declared to be thatof which, " not the slaves, but the mas ters, should be willing instruments and authors." That your petitioners, by means of the constant intercourse with the colonies, are enabled confidently to assert that there prevails throughout the proprietors thereof, a liberal and con stant attention to the wants and comforts of the slave popula tion, which is evinced by a plentiful supply (even in times when the returns may be inadequate to the costs) of such ar ticles as will contribute to their well-being, and this resulting as well from considerations of humanity as from the known anti acknowledged fact, that upon the effective strength, com fort, and contentment of the labouring population attached to it, essentially depends the value of any West India plantation. That your Petitioners are well aware that your Right Hon. House may command from the highest and most unquestion able authority, evidence which will filly bear out these asser tions respecting the existing comforts and progressively im proving condition of the slaves in our West India Colonies. That representaions of .a contrary tendency, which, having been Addressed to popular meetings, )lave excited those Pen tions, which from various parts of the kingdom have been pre sented to your Right Honourable House, are not grounded upon such information and acquaintance with the subject as your petitioners have access to, nor upon that respectable evi dence to which they have alluded, anti to which they fearlessly appeal; but originating in exaggeration or misrepresentation, have, by zealous persons associated for that purpose, been sue. cesafully applied in irritating ,the feelings of the public, and inducing a hasty call for an emancipation of the slaves, with but small regard either to the advantage of the slaves them selves, or to the justice due to your petitioners.. That the measures which, from motives of regard towards the slaves, have been adopted by his Majesty's Government, have unfortunately, and doubtless unintentionally, already caused a great deterioratien of the property of your petitioners. These measures having been generally understood, a s ex p ress ly pre paratory to, anti directly connected wit!), the emancipation of the slaves, and having not been accompanied with a distinct arid explicit pledge of indemnification for the injury which pro perty must sustain, not only in the attainment of the final ob ject, but in the progressive operation of the means for its at tainment. That owing to these causes, the confidence of capi. talists has been influenced to such a degree, that West India securities are become nearly valueless as transferable property— a circumstance which, at a period of general alarm and panic, similar to that which has lately occurred; must suhject the holders of such property to extreme and peculiar diffculties. That to this effect must powerfully contribute the measure an nounced of offering, as an adequate compensation in cases of compulsory•emancipation, the estimated value of the liberated slave or slaves--a proceeding pregnant with alarm to the mort gagees and others of your petitioners holding various securities upon lands cultivated by slaves. And your petitioners humbly represent, that until it shall be proved by experience, ;Ind free negroes will work for hire, and carry on the ordinary Cultiva tion of estates in a regular and effectual manner, the slaves must be considered as forming the essential part of the securi ties held by your petitioners, since land in the colonies would cease to be of any worth when deprived of its labourers ; and that therefore, without the test just mentioned, or full and , Im mediate indemnification, the process of compulsory emancipa tion cannot even be experimentally conimenced upon x West India estate with justice to the various patties holding legal claims upon the proPerty. That it has been the wise and just practice of Parliament, when authorizing in this country any infraction of private right or private property, to provide that the individuals so deprived shall receive from the public (for whose objects the sacrifice is demanded) a full and fair compensation for what is taken away, and even to admit that there be included in the price a consi deration for the inconvenience and contingent loss which the in. dividual may suffer front being compelled to part with his pro perty. And your petitioners trust that the measure of justice may be extended to their case; and that what would be con. sidered to be injustice to a British subject holding property in Britain, will equally be considered to be injustice to a British subject holding prperty in the colonies. That your petitioners are persuaded that the reluctance and distrust with which the suggestions of the British Government respecting an amelioration of the condition of the slaves have 'been received in various colonies, have been caused or aggra vated in many instances by an indignant sense of those offen sive misrepresentations of the conduct and motives of the colo nists, which, in speeches anal writings by eminent persons, have been so profusely addressed to the British public . ; and more especially and universally by the apprehension of danger threatening their properties and political rights and your pen. tioners are confident, that were those feelings removed, together with the delusion which has been excited in the minds of the slaves by the prolonged discussions on the subject, the colonial legislatures would, with sincerity, zeal, and discretion, apply themselves to the deliberate consideration of all the communi cations made to them, with a view to correct whatever may be amiss, and to supply what may be wanting towards improving the condition and promoting the civilization of the slave popu lation. • That those independent Colonial Legialatures,upon which for a long period has practically rested (subject to the sanction of the King in Council) the right of municipal and internal regu. lation, will, however, claim that themselves, from their local ex perience and innuediate knowledge of all that is pinning around them, can best judge of the fittest time and manner introduc. ing any changes in their law and practice ; and will plead, that while they feel the responsibility of their situation, they cannot consistently be required to do what they conscientiously consi der as dangerous to the tranquillity and prosperity of the Colo. andnies over which they preside. That irnauiresr greatly petitioners induced liavee theretomla rked t b h y ei te propertyr hir coi confidence Colo nialdienn:in practical knowled ge o f t h e Colonial Legis latures, and in the advantage of ha v i ng t h e laws and internal regulationlof the,Colonies fram e d b y t h ose most competent to adapt them to the immediate charact e r, h a bi ts, an d intelligence the experience and o f die various classes whi c h compose their population; that if the slaves be taught to look for th e i r protection and government to s any c other: atof the King eingoaloniallietsh,e anti legislative con se. or other local power which they have been long accustom e d t o p quently the security o f property therein, will be greatly ret oey, authority tite than tranquillity endan gered. That your petitioners would therefore regard. an interference by the Imperial Parliament with the established jurisdiction of IVI. S. 9 0 9 3 9 19 those legislatures, as a removal of one of the securities of pro perty invested in the coronies ; and they know that the hare stig gestion of such interference has contributed to the discredit which already attaches to West India securities. That the conduct of the Colonial Legislatures respecting the registry laws, together with the zealous reception and liberal support of the religious establishments with which they have been favoured, prove the good-will of the colOnists, and their inclination to acquiesce in those views of the parent Legisla ture which ; are directed to objects of unquestionable utility, provided theybe secured against attacks upon their constitu tional privileges, and those rights of property which have been established under titles and sanctions as valid as the law could give them. That your petitioners feel themselves authorized to declare, that the opinions which in 1823 were expressed to his Majesty's Ministers by several• possessors of colonial property resident in this country, and which have often in discussion upon this sub : ject been referred to, were directed solely towards measures of amelioration, and did neither contemplate any compulsory emancipation of the slaves, nor any constraint upon the Inde pendence of the Colonial Legislatures. That Great Britain, if she have the will, may doubtless im pose upon her colonies a constraint which they' cannot resist; and it is equally true :hat precipi tate acts of power might pro- , duce ruinous extremities whi ch the Mother Country did not contemplate, and which she might in vain attempt to remedy; but the attribute of the British Legislature is justice, and to that your petitioners will make their appeal. Confident in their undeviating attachment to his Majesty's person and GO. vernment, and conscious of no crime by which their title to protection is forfeited, they do respectfully, bttt firmly prefer their claim to full indemnification for all injury which cons straint and force may inflict upon that propert y . which, what • ever may have been the circumstances of its original acquisi• tion, is held, as it now stands, under the solemn guarantee of British laws. That your petitioners cannot conclude without noticing, that in many of the petitions to your Right Honourable House, which ask its interference with the colonial legialatures, there is a prayer, that in respect to the West India colonies the mother country will depart from that established policy by which the produce of capital and industry, which is pertly and . intimately 13ritish, and situated in parts of the empire whose commerce the mother county stricty controls, has a protection' afforded to it in the home consumption over that which it' foreign, or brought from appendages of the empire not so con trolled, and less identified with the resources and interest of the mother country. That this prayer, if traced to its source, would, as your pen-• tioners believe, be found to originate in interest of commercial rivalry, since it is at variance with a spirit of humanity towards. the slave, whose well-being cannot possibly be promoted by any proceeding which tends to impoverish his master. Upon the grounds which your petitioners have now stated,. they humbly pray,— That your Right Hon. House will, by a legislative declara tion, or by such other means as to your wisdom shall appear most expedient, restore to the property of your petitioners, and of other British subjects connected with the Wrest India colo nies, that credit and confidence which is ever due to property protected by British laws, and also that your Right Hon. House will forbear to adopt towards the local Legislatures in the West • India colonies any measures which may be at variance with the rights of internal legislation which they have so long curt , cised. PROME, Nov. 5, 1825. (E.rtract of a Letter from an O f ficer.) We are again to start for a very long march of about 300 miles. We shall, however, at its conclusion, reach the far famed capital of this empire, and I have no doubt but it will fall into our hands without either much resistance or loss. The Court of Ave is composed of the most extraordinary beings that the annals of history can chew ; for it will scarcely be believed that; after the severe lessons they have received, and impressed es they must be with our strength, all endeavours at pacification NW! been rejected by them. They sent down Ambassadors to try with us : and after two months' armistice, during chiefs fell in love with us, the Kiug, it is said, has iterated on his poor subjects being once more led to the slaughter. The I 'l Woongie, Prime Minister of the Empire, came down investeu with full powers to treat; but having ascertained the terms ea f which we would retire—namely, the payment of the expellee' e , the war, the possession of Arracan, and the country south la the Salamy River—he declared he could not ratify the tern?! without the previous sanction of the golden-footed ,bonne The fact is, the King of Ave is still in ignorance of Otar real strength; for such is the despotic rule of this nere°nage'i and so invincibly proud are they in the immediate sphere, that i f is well known he has been but partially informed of h ie en I t the war. It is confidently asserted, that he slit open mou e l e , convey to the Golden -f of the poor man to whose lot it fell to the terms of the English. He was in so great a rage, they_se,; that he sent orders for his warriors to march down and attac k u s immediately, although at that time the line of demarkation .ndB been defined, which was not to be crossed by either pattY the armistice. The poor old Kee Woongie, who is reallY ‘ l ,`; disposed and good-natured and reflecting person, was eedl Y 814 ta n io at the alternative in which he was planed : to advance to eet death—to linger, after the issuing of the despot's mandate, !a.' equally fatal ; he therefore, like a wise man, called a council of o and said, that during the armistice, if the Burmese Chiefs Pa` s a ed the boundary, the name of their nation would be sullied!.!,l, that he valued his honour too much to meet dea th whilst 10 111 . : 1 , 1 , breaking his faith. The rogues who her hint were delight " which their such an excuse, and they accordingly put it oft They are su hea c r c t es il s y o s f ic i L f of or th t e her w e ar i , s gain nothing by eve) 4 . : 1 as such they th i ng ci as amor patriw tObefe w.- amongst them. The war cannot cease unless the Court of Ave succumb_; 4 61 they affect to be the strong people they once absurdly' M g , themselves ; but it will not do — the few eyes that w ill m‘7„s a s must ere long be opened—and the arrogant blockhead, who Pr, r himself the Golden Monarch, and master of all the elephants '- the world, will soon learn that the boast of riches he does not P e % sess cannot avert the decrees of an Almighty Being, and that is i I usurped title over such wonderful creatures as elephants wil l u cb him little, while he lacks the good sense they posses to 4 VI greater degree. Despots are diminishing fast in this a g e of reason and libe it) .; and I am led to believe at times that the hand of Pmvideno singular manner in forwarding the 0 . , 4' ,: here displayed in a very a design of our Saviour. Of all the Eastern nations, 11°*. ' 11). 1 Burmalt has no caste to which he is higotted ; the lowest venture to say, are so capable of being speedily civilised. pc as eo h e sve them can read, and they are intelligent and well behaved' I fly; learned their language, and can read, write, and talk it gi L e e , n f o r although far from copious, it is di ffi cult to acquire therougloy the idioms are plentiful, and the honorific titles are ri(i ts ice numerous. These last we do not much require to learn, f or 1 so it we shall not address any of them in a cringing It tur nt fate r our native bluntness will cause us to despise those sch° l 7,"a sew ing speeches in conversing with free-born Britons. , be nto 100 I try, under proper Government, might easily t ie sti p . a complete garden, for the soil is rich and abundsa, es , is plied with water. The Irrawaddy is one of the nobles t cotdd the world ; here it is deep enough o fl oat many ships o f n'- i keats) they manage to stem the continual stream of three or M l * o tets which comes from regions unknown, to mix with the bi: i in , Y .,pg th e of the Bay of Bengal. It rises upwards of thirty feet uti.n-aseitle) freshes of the monsoon, and by overflowing its banks falrA.l,olllo - a east expanse of water, which strangers wo nished to see, if they were to arrive now that it bee ee d or The houses of the poor peopl e , in consequence of coeteincbee pression, are of the most flimsy construction and of t h bert material, for they often migrate in shoals, and freq ue 2 ) re ' tidy themselves in thick jungles, or take to the hills, we, e 0 ,1 0 14 defy the power of their tormentors, and becozne Pi° , h oot by wholesale,. because they must eat and drink. I aw hi le e prepared to defend these poor creatures against the c hyle being faithless and ungrateful. I think they are niihe land a bad nor so contemptible as they are repreoeuted• wig starved wretches, four in number, whose lives I Pr ei l n obtle a t who fattened on the little I could give them, were, lc' frightened into desertion, for the cruel Bundoolse,i't oighia known, threatened unexampled tortures to any ti he gio) 11 be found in the service of the English , when drive us into the sea. It is quite grati f y in g t° t"s ty minds, to look around Prome, at this motile° i t ' i i ither the multitudes of poor people who have flocke d e asa e i enjoy that comfort among their enemies svhichnen and experience in the vicinity even of their co " 7 ; 1 - or b ° i friends. The inhabitants of several villages to th e too lit er east have at last been driven to the necessity of tlYi"g og ea!: houses, the banditti have become so cruel and tou l A it e , 00 and here they congregate as the only place where _r r ' el ecteu . : treated like human beings. The British name is ",per P r i v o and it would be an easy matter to depopulate the a vitas, if our Government wou ld resolve in keeping.i.i to u:, southward of Pronto.. The greatest anxiety previllive g 0 so! a t ' , ultimate intentions; and we are daily told, that ev t e nt they will follow, for fire and sword will every whel s *! " c i ow e o ad as a revenge for their having lived under' the Da wings. 411 he' 6°P Printed and Published fur the Pnornivronsv 5t I I. Of FICX, No. 112 , St rand, by J. B. CAUITAO